Delete your tapa. account

Last updated: 29 August 2026

You can delete your tapa. account and everything stored with it at any time. Deletion is permanent and immediate — there is no waiting period, and nothing is archived for later.

If you still have the app and can sign in, do it yourself in under a minute. If you've uninstalled tapa. or can't get into your account, email us and we'll do it for you.

Delete it yourself, in the app

Open tapa., go to the Profile tab, tap the gear in the top corner, then Delete account at the bottom of Settings. You'll be asked to confirm once, and then it's done.

Ask us to delete it

Email hello@fortherestofus.app from the address on your tapa. account, with “Delete my tapa account” as the subject. That's the whole request — you don't need to explain why.

We reply to confirm it's done, usually within 24 hours and always within 30 days. If you write from a different address we'll ask you one question to confirm the account is yours, because otherwise anyone could delete anyone's recipes.

Signed in with Apple and chose to hide your email? Your account sits under Apple's private relay address. Write to us from whichever address Apple forwards to and mention that you used Sign in with Apple.
Can't remember which way you signed in? Tell us the email you'd expect and we'll find it.

What gets deleted

Everything attached to the account is removed from our servers straight away:

Your account itself, and the sign-in that goes with it — email, name, and profile picture.
Your saved recipes and your recipe history, including the ingredients you entered and anything you rated.
Your dietary preferences, allergies, and app settings.
Your free-recipe count and the record of which plan you were on.

What doesn't go, and why

Copies on your own phone. Saved recipes are also stored on the device so they open with no signal. Uninstalling tapa. clears them.
Your subscription, if you have one. Pro is billed by Apple or Google, not by us, so deleting your account does not cancel it. Cancel it first — the steps are on our support page.
Purchase records. Apple, Google, and our billing provider keep a record of transactions they processed, under their own terms and the tax rules they're held to. We can't erase those, and neither can they on request.
Backups. Our database is backed up daily on a rolling seven-day window. Your rows are gone from the live database immediately and fall out of the backups within seven days. Nothing deleted is ever restored or used again.

Questions before you decide

If you're deleting because something isn't working, it may be worth reading the support page first — restoring a Pro purchase and resetting a password are both quick fixes. Either way, write to hello@fortherestofus.app and a person will answer.

What we collect while you're using tapa. is set out in the privacy policy.